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Ok for the last time calling ps+ a rental service is beyond silly.

1. Rental services give you a collection you can chose from. Ps+ doesn't. Is that a good thing? With a few exceptions (discovering gems you'd never normally play), it's actually not. But that's besides the point. It's still massively different to almost any rental service (referring to games not cars).

2. It lets you keep your games as long as you have a subscription. To my knowledge, you can't go to blockbuster (are there any left?), rent a game and return it a year later. Or two or even 5 years later. And if they let you do that with a game or two, they definitely won't let you do the same with every game you rent.

3. When you renew your subscription, you get ALL your games back. You can't do that with gamefly. As in "hi I'd like to rent a game and get back all the previous games I rented the last couple of years".

4. It gives you some incredible discounts. And if you purchase a game this way, you get to keep it forever. Rental services don't give you that option and in the very rare occasions that they do, the deals are nowhere near as good.

5. You get exclusive or early access to betas and exclusive items, such as avatars, themes, apps and you can download entire games and play them for a few hours as if they were demos at no extra cost.

6. You get free dlc and other items that cost money. I get free orbs on destiny of spirits every month. Those things cost money and I don't have to return them back. Also, I recently got the Japanese voice pack for Lighting returns for free and I remember also getting the Fallout 3 dlc for free. Rental services don't offer that either.

7. You get other services such as the ability to play multiplayer online on ps4 (nothing to do with rental services) and cloud saving. This way you can easily transfer saves files from on console to another, especially if one of them dies (or is lost/stolen) and you can't retrieve the save files.

There are probably more, but these are the ones that come to mind. I'd advise people who have no idea how ps+ even works (especially the ones who have never owned a sony console) to refrain from displaying their ignorance on this topic. You're entitled to your opinion, but at least do some research before commenting on something you don't know enough about.

OT: If Ninty decides to do that, they have to try their best to make sure that it can compete with ps+. Old NES games won't cut it and they should offer good wiiu games from the getgo. A mediocre effort will only result to more criticism.